First UK release for NYC singer/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist responsible for immortal The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle LP

Veteran Louisiana-born country-soulster runs the gamut of musical styles and moods on her daring and dazzling follow-up to 2001's critically lauded Essence

Two discs including tracks from albums one to four and five to eight. Oh, and the best hard rock ever recorded

From Airplane wannabes to folk-rock deities...

If Gillian Welch floats your boat, chances are Laura Veirs will, too, though her take on homespun Appalachia is tempered by modernist tendencies. Anyone familiar with 1999's eponymous guitar-and-voice-only debut will be taken aback here, ditching much of its thorny agit-folk for dreamily intoxicating balladry, sawing strings and near-perfect vocal phrasing.

Massachusetts noiseniks' major label debut

First solo album in a decade from world's most famous producer

Third album of synthetic teutonica from German chanteuse

'Lost' English power pop album from early '90s featuring Rick "Orgone Box" Corcoran

Kentucky legend's Decca years in a bite-sized chunk